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Conflict Confirms Consent
Commentators agree that this verse reveals a paradox: your internal conflict with sin is proof that you agree with God's law. When you do something you don't want to do, your hatred for that action shows that your inner self, your renewed will, consents that the law forbidding it is good and right.
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Albert Barnes
On Romans 7:16
18th Century
Theologian
I consent unto the law. The very struggle with evil shows that it is not loved, or approved, but that the law which condemns it is really …
AT Robertson
On Romans 7:16
I consent unto the law (συνφημ τω νομω). Old verb, here only in N.T., with associative instrumental case. "I speak with." My wanti…
Charles Ellicott
On Romans 7:16
19th Century
Bishop
But the fact that I desire to do what is right is itself a witness to the excellence of the Law, which commands that which I desire.
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Charles Spurgeon
On Romans 7:16
19th Century
Preacher
If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
If I do that which my will and conscience rebel agains…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Romans 7:16
At the outset Paul wants it understood that he is not depreciating the law, for it is “spiritual” (GK 4461)—that is, emanating from God (vv.22, 25)…
John Calvin
On Romans 7:16
16th Century
Theologian
But if what I do not desire, I do, I consent to the law, etc.; that is, “When my heart accepts the law and is delighted with its …
John Gill
On Romans 7:16
17th Century
Pastor
If then I do that which I would not
This is a corollary, or an inference from what he had related of his own experie…
Matthew Henry
On Romans 7:14–17
17th Century
Minister
Compared with the holy rule of conduct in the law of God, the apostle found himself so very far short of perfection that he seemed to be carnal, li…